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While British lawyers spent this month’s American Bar Association (ABA) conference forging contacts and drumming up business, their American colleagues spent much of their time debating euthanasia. And when they weren’t discussing physician-assisted suicide, they were grappling with a host of other social issues. It all left the Brits a tad bemused. As one senior […]

OFFICIAL Referee Judge Bowsher QC is running a pilot scheme to hear summonses by telephone. The scheme, which was suggested by Lord Woolf, is only available to solicitors whose case is in the list of the Official Referee. To comply, all the parties have to agree to be heard over the telephone and at least […]

Simmons & Simmons Hong Kong managing partner Stephen Schofield has been replaced by London corporate partner Ken Woffenden. Schofield, who headed the office for more than 10 years, has returned to the UK, but it is expected that he will remain involved in Hong Kong work. Woffenden said he had no immediate plans to alter […]

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